Meera Sehgal

Education & Professional History

University of Poona, MA; University of Wisconsin-Madison, MS; PhD

Highlights & Recent Activity

“Defending the Nation: Militarism, Women’s Empowerment & the Hindu Right”. In  Jennifer Bickman Mendez and  Nancy A. Naples (eds.). Border Politics, Globalization, and Social Movements. New York University Press. 2014.

“Mothering the Nation: Maternalist Frames in the Hindu Nationalist Movement in India”.  In Kathleen Blee and Sandra Deutsch (eds.). Women of the Right: Comparisons and Exchanges Across National Borders. Pennsylvania State University Press. 2012.

“The Veiled Feminist Ethnographer: Fieldwork amongst Women of India’s Hindu Right”. In Martha Huggins and Marie-Louise Glebbeek (eds.). Women Fielding Danger: Negotiating Ethnographic Identities in Field Research, Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, Boulder. 2009.

“Manufacturing a Feminized Siege Mentality: Hindu Nationalist Paramilitary Camps for Women in India”. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Special Edition on Racist Right Wing Movements, Vol. 36, Issue 2, pp. 165-183. 2007.